Understood, and I acknowledge that.
I'm not disappointed in your efforts. What's disappointing is that the understanding of legal holiday is contorted into somehow being a statutory holiday. I get that. I can see that misinterpretation. If we amended this bill to say “which will not be equal to a statutory holiday”, or “not require schools and businesses to be closed”, would that possibly change your opinion?
I know you can't speak for the membership because you don't know how they would have voted regardless. You can't predict how they would have voted if they knew it wasn't a statutory holiday. If it were clear that the bill did not create a statutory holiday, might that appease the concerns of those you represent?